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From: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS LINK- fixup error
Message-ID: <180@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 00:04:57 EST
Article-I.D.: netxcom.180
Posted: Sun Nov  9 00:04:57 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Nov-86 06:20:28 EST
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Organization: NetExpress Communications Inc. Vienna, Va.
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In article <2250@mtgzz.UUCP> rosen@mtgzz.UUCP (t.rosenfeld) writes:
>I'm having a terrible problem linking my program! I am using Microsoft
>C and Assembler. I am trying to link in an assembly module with my C modules
>and I keep getting "Fixup overflow ..." errors when I link. After much barking
[etc.]

I have seen this error message a number of times, and unless I'm mistaken,
in each case the problem was a conflict between global symbols, one each in
code and data segments.  My personal favorite was a global variable called
"exit".

Hope this helps,

John Allen
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